The Collections

There are nine distinct Rare Book Collections, totaling approximately 22,000 books and journals, covering major authors and ideas from classical antiquity to the present. Four of the collections have disciplinary specializations; four are more general in scope, offering strengths in a variety of areas including gross anatomy, neurology, obstetrics, and gastroenterology.

		Bernard Becker Collection in Ophthalmology and Optics 380 volumes, 15th-19th centuries
		CID-Max A. Goldstein Collection in Speech and Hearing 920 volumes, 15th-20th centuries
		Henry J. McKellops Collection in Dental Medicine 750 volumes, 16th-20th centuries
		Robert E. Schlueter-Paracelsus Collection 500 volumes, 15th-20th centuries
		Classics of Medicine Collection 1,460 volumes, 15th-19th centuries
		James Moores Ball Collection 2,600 volumes, 16th-20th centuries
		Monuments of Medicine Collection 5,400 volumes, 19th-20th centuries
		Rare Medical Periodicals Collection 11,500 volumes, 17th-20th centuries
		H. Richard Tyler Collection of the American Academy of Neurology Library 2,500 volumes, 15th-20th centuries

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